asked the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries if he is aware that a person, who has started work on a glasshouse and applied for a glasshouse nursery grant, has been refused a grant because the work was started before the inspector called; and if he will consider having a grant paid in such cases.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Glasshouse Nursery Grant.
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It is a provision of the Scheme of Grants for Glasshouse Nurseries, as of other such schemes, that a grant may not be paid for work started before written approval is obtained; but no applicant has been refused a grant under the glasshouse scheme because the work was started before the inspector called. I am prepared, as an exceptional measure, to consider on its merits any case in which satisfactory evidence is forthcoming that work under the glasshouse scheme was not commenced before 1st January, 1967.
Is the Minister aware that when I checked with the Department to find out why a particular applicant had not been allocated a grant, I was informed that the man had been refused because he had started work before he got the OK from the Minister's Department? Would the Minister agree that even if it is after 1st January, 1967, that the work was started, he should reconsider the matter?
I am not aware that is what happened, that is, if we are talking about the same case.
If I bring the matter to the notice of the Minister, will he agree to have a look at it, or to have someone have a look at it again? That is the information I received from the Department a few weeks ago.
I still say that I am not aware that this is necessary. I have given the answer I know at the moment.
But——
I have already said that.
Will it be started after 1st January, 1967?
It must be. Anything started before that is out.